MUBI, the place for the best of cinema, has unveiled their schedule for the month of August. As part of the schedule, MUBI has included Brother (Brat), a 1997 Russian film directed by Aleksei Balabanov, which received positive acclaim over the years including a Nika award for best film in 1998. The film follows Danila, played by the late Sergei Bodrov, who returns from army service to St. Petersburg. Soon after his return, he begins a journey into the Russian underworld with his brother, a contract killer.
This is the current list of films on MUBI in August 2021.
1 August | Diva | Jean-Jacques Beineix
2 August | The Harder They Come | Perry Henzell | Cinema Rediscovered Partnership
3 August | Something Different | Věra Chytilová | On Your Marks: A Cinematic Olympiad
4 August | All Hands on Deck | Guillaume Brac | A MUBI Release / The New Auteurs| Exclusive
5 August | TBC
6 August | Black Bear | Lawrence Michael Levine | MUBI Spotlight | Exclusive
7 August | Welcome II The Terrordome | Ngozi Onwurah | Dystopia | Exclusive
8 August | Joy Division | Grant Gee | Turn It Up: Music On Film
9 August | Diary for My Children | Márta Mészáros | Independent Women: The Pioneering Cinema of Márta Mészáros | Exclusive
10 August | Hotel New York | Jackie Raynal | New York Stories: A Jackie Raynal Double Bill
11 August | The Cloud in Her Room | Zheng Lu Zinyuan | A MUBI Release / Debuts | Exclusive
12 August | Salut Les Cubains | Agnès Varda | Varda Abroad
13 August | April’s Daughter | Michel Franco | New Order in cinemas!
14 August | White God | Kornél Mundruczó | Dystopia
15 August | 24 Hour Party People | Michael Winterbottom | Turn It Up: Music On Film
16 August | Menarca | Lillah Halla | A MUBI Release / Brief Encounters | Exclusive
17 August | Hedi | Mohammed Ben Attia | Private Faces: A Mohammed Ben Attia Double Bill
18 August | Amer | Hélène Cattet, Bruno Forzani | Cattet Forzani Double Bill
19 August | Good Vibrations | Glenn Leyburn, Lisa Barros D’Sa | Turn It Up: Music On Film
20 August | When You’re Strange | Tom DiCillo | Turn It Up: Music On Film
21 August | Apples | Christos Nikou | MUBI Spotlight | Exclusive
22 August | Black Panthers | Agnès Varda | Varda Abroad
23 August | Lina from Lima | Maria Páz González | A MUBI Release / Viewfinder | Exclusive
24 August | Brother | Aleksey Balabanov | Russian Dark: The Films of Aleksey Balabanov
25 August | Purple Sea | Amel Alzakout, Khaled Abdulwahed | A MUBI Release / Undiscovered | Exclusive
26 August | Open Hearts | Susanne Bier
27 August | TBC
28 August | Only God Forgives | Nicolas Winding Refn
29 August | Lions Love | Agnès Varda | Varda Abroad
30 August | Grand Central | Rebecca Zlotowski
31 August | The Strange Colour of Your Body’s Tears | Hélène Cattet, Bruno Forzani | Cattet Forzani Double Bill
